Article: Password security… bahhh!?!

What I long suspected.

After reading this email I now feel fine not worrying about changing my passwords. Some of them I have kept the same for decades. I know I’ve been told to change them but things like this come out and it just feels so good for my procrastination in changing my passwords to be validated by fancy studies.

From the article…

“Now, a study has concluded what lots of us have long suspected: Many of these irritating security measures are a waste of time. The study, by a top researcher at Microsoft, found that instructions intended to spare us from costly computer attacks often exact a much steeper price in the form of user effort and time expended.”